Augustine's anthropology is frequently deemed Platonic, hence dualist,
whereby soul and body are conceived as two loosely associated substances - even that the soul is the man.
Not exact matches
O eternal
and everlasting God, I presume to present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept of my humble
and hearty thanks, that it hath pleased thy great goodness to keep
and preserve me the night past from all the dangers poor mortals are subject to,
and has given me sweet
and pleasant sleep,
whereby I find my
body refreshed
and comforted for performing the duties of this day, in which I beseech thee to defend me from all perils of
body and soul...
Salvation is that process
whereby Yahweh, through Yahshuah,
and by the Spirit makes us whole in thought, word, deed, spirit,
soul,
and body!
It would seem that Man, observing it with curiosity, has always been aware of the law of compensation
whereby, in every circumstance of nature, the most highly spiritualized
souls are associated with the most corruptible
and intricate
bodies.
This psychological honesty —
whereby the
soul understands that it must govern the
body and the
body learns that it is empty without the
soul — may become a great strength in the face of a world untutored by this tension, unbound by this problematic, even comic posturing of devotion to the law
and its enforcement.
Indeed, according to Aristotle, who formulated the theory of hylomorphism ¯ the theory
whereby the
soul is the form of the
body, the polar opposite of mind /
body dualism ¯
body and soul are so closely intertwined that they can not be understood without one another.